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BS Mechanical Engr.
PhD CS(AI)
CS Prof (4yr)
Numerous consulting jobs.
15 yr at http://www.pharsight.com
Published book on CS & several articles
4 kids, 2 grand
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P.S. The picture is a Beta-prime distribution. It shows the program speedup factors you can get if you see a problem twice in 5, 4, 3, and 2 samples.

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What are some good strategies for improving the serial performance of my code?
Jul 6, 2012
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Profiling CFD code with Callgrind
Apr 5, 2012
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What makes Fortran fast?
Jul 12, 2012
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Why are Runge-Kutta and Euler's method so different?
Jul 15, 2015
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Is providing approximate gradients to a gradient based optimizer useless?
Jul 20, 2016
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How can I detect which among N bodies with different velocities will collide?
Jul 18, 2012
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Is it possible to optimise this integration code so that it runs faster?
Mar 26, 2014
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What algorithm for solving a set of stiff ODEs would be easiest to port to high precision floating point arithmetic?
Jun 18, 2012
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Ways of visualizing event data in search of performance issues
Sep 12, 2012
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Comparison of iteration methods: number of iterations vs. cpu time
Jun 21, 2013
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